Mamatoto Radio

This episode is brought to you by The Nest, the online parenting community for parents who want to raise kids that don’t suck. Go to mamatoto.info/thenest and get on the waitlist.   Let me tell you a story that used to be funny and embarrassing for me, and now, with time and wisdom is awesome and empowering to me, and maybe it will be for you too :)   When I became a mom I was in grad school. I did not have a lot of mom or dad friends, and none that had babies the same age as mine that lived close by.   My family was on a different continent, and I am not sure it would have been any better had they been closer. The distance might have been a blessing in disguise, and I will tell you why in a minute.   When my daughter was about nine months old it occurred to me that she didn’t have any baby friends.   Not that I knew what kind of interaction babies would have with each other at that point, but I thought that it would be important for her to have other babies in her life.   So I went on a quest to find them.